Jill Stewart

Read the blow-by-blow here about the possibly illegal doings by the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency in January, as it went into panic mode to squirrel away $1 billion that Gov. Jerry Brown says must be shifted from subsidizing rich L.A. developers to shoring up poverty aid and indigent health......

Valley Village resident Franklin Hanock, featured in an L.A. Daily News column by Kerry Cavanaugh, says "Where is heading scares the hell out of me." He got a $125 fine for a malfunctioning burglar alarm that went off in 2008. He decided to challenge it. His odyssey reveals the inability......

Update: The school was in the news recently for the Jeff Stenroos faked shooting. One of the top-rated schools in the Western U.S., El Camino Real High School -- so good that parents have driven up home prices in the Woodland Hills attendance zone around it -- is (gasp) leaving......

Today's breathless press release states that California Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered a massive state hiring freeze. Will that be anything like Gov. Gray Davis' utterly fake freeze, during which tens of thousands of state employees were hired? Or Gov. Arnold Schwarenegger's false freeze, during which he allowed a pile-on......

Michael Trujillo's creepy, self-obsessed email to 28 insiders in the Jose Huizar campaign, in which he strutted and proclaimed like Captain Queeg: "We are about to put a political bullet in between Rudy Martinez's forehead," is a wake-up call to people trying to fix Los Angeles. Trujillo is an unusually......

Pew Charitable Trusts reports that of 15 of the biggest U.S. cities, the Los Angeles City Council spends more on personal staffs and offices than anyone, has the highest pay (L.A. $178,789/San Antonio $1,400!), and is one of only three municipal bodies in big U.S. cities to still insist that......

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck tonight accused LAUSD campus cop Jeff Stenroos of staging his own shooting shooting himself near El Camino Real High School last week, creating a fake story about a gunman shooting him -- and setting off a massive manhunt, multi-school lockdown and shutdown of 7......

Finally, a big coalition is urging approval of Measure L on the March 8 ballot, which would save the decimated Los Angeles public library system from anti-library Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who, as mentioned in the past, reads mostly menus. Measure L, sponsored by Councilman Bernard Parks, undoes Villaraigosa's attack on......

How embarrassing to read the op-ed on how great United Teachers Los Angeles is, in the LA Times today. Two teachers, UTLA union leaders, touted "reforms" that described routine duties expected of teachers for decades. How clueless. And revealing. Kirti Baranwal and Gillian Russom say LAUSD teacher "reforms" include: teachers......